Live session: Post-session questions about the questions (Madigan, 1999)
Stephen Madigan answers post-session questions about the questions he asks in the therapy session.
Video: Apprenticing in the practices of Anti-anorexia: (David Epston & Stephen Madigan, 2017)
David Epston invites Stephen Madigan to discuss the early days of their apprenticeship/supervision relationship.
Live Session: The use of session notes as a re-telling (Madigan, 2011)
Stephen Madigan demonstrates how Michael White taught him a particular structure in taking therapeutic notes and reporting the notes back from the previous session to begin the next session - as an act of re-membering and re-telling
Reading: Ollie session transcript & commentary about the questions (Madigan, 1999)
What begins as a standard narrative therapy session demonstration takes a dramatic turn. We invite you to pay particular attention to Stephen’s questions regarding race, power relations, and culture.
Video: Philosopher Todd May on Michel Foucault & Michael White (May, 2020) Sample
PreviewPhilosopher Todd May joins Stephen Madigan to begin their VSNT.live Series on how certain ideas of Michel Foucault influenced the narrative therapy practice of Michael White.
Video: Histories of narrative therapy keynote (Madigan, 2014)
PreviewStephen Madigan explores Michael White's ideological connection to second order cybernetics and the work of Gregory Bateson and - how it was that Michael and David Epston decided to turn away from 150 years of psychological theory, vocabulary and practice
Additional Resources: Watch Madigan’s full session #5
Full session demonstration: Consulting your consultants and reauthoring: live session #5
Reading: Critical multiculturalism, whiteness, and social Work (Nylund, 2006)
David Nylund's paper writes that most cultural diversity classes in social work are taught from a liberal or conservative multicultural perspective that precludes a power analysis and a critical discussion of whiteness.
Reading: Destabilizing chronic identities of depression and retirement (Madigan, 1999) – Sample
PreviewThe paper brings together the relational politic of narrative theory and practice considerations when working with persons living on psychiatric wards who have been professionally named and captured within destabilizing chronic identities. The paper features an example of therapeutic letter writing campaigns.
Video: Power/knowledge in therapy interview (Madigan & White, 1991)
This rare 1991 interview clip captures Stephen Madigan interviewing Michael White about Gregory Bateson, Michel Foucault, the issue of power/knowlege and - how these ideas influence narrative therapy practice.
